#lit

We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I’m not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out. ↗

— Paul Newman

#environment #farmer #inspirational #sainthood #sustainability

He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#religion #self-awareness #spirituality #life

I was surrounded by friends, my work was immense, and pleasures were abundant. Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly, like the flowers of summer that drop fanlike petals on eternal soil. Overall, I was happiest to be alone; for it was then I was most aware of what I possessed. Free to look out over the rooftops of the city. Happy to be alone in the company of friends, the company of lovers and strangers. Everything, I decided, in this life, was pure pleasure. ↗

— Roman Payne

#alone #aloneness #company #flowers #friends

I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel. ↗

— Florence Nightingale

#heroes #heroism #life #practicality #life

Sometimes when you're upset it's so easy to forget what's real and go for what makes you feel better. (131) ↗

— Charise Mericle Harper

#reality #life

You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they're all social inventions. When the sun comes up in the morning it's shining on the same physical landscape, all the atoms are in place. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#life #news #politics #truth #life

Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know? ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#either #life #or #truth #life

I was always an unusual girl. My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean. ↗

— Lana Del Rey

#chameleon #elizabeth-woolridge-grant #life #lyrics #moral-compass

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#woman #life

A healthy woman is much like a wolf: robust, chock-full, strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, inventive, loyal, roving. ↗

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

#life